Muse (magazine)
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Muse is a children's magazine recommended for age 10 and up, published by Carus Publishing, the publishers of Cricket. It contains articles on history, science, and the arts. Nine cartoon characters known as the Muses appear in the margins throughout the magazine. Urania is the only one of the original Greek muses, but Kokopelli is a fertility and trickster god of many Native American tribes.
Muse magazine is published nine times every year. Each issue contains a comic ("Kokopelli & Company") written by Larry Gonick, a spoof of the subject of the issue, a math article by Ivars Peterson, letters from readers, a contest, and a question-and-answer page, and articles on various topics. Past issues have covered vegetarianism, pie throwing, alien life, Naked Mole Rats, the origin of the moon, pirates, urban legends, insects, mummies, tenrecs, the history of napkins, New Zealand's exploding trousers, Rube Goldberg inventions, The Lord of the Rings, and blind cavefish.
Muse's Q&A columnists run an unofficial (http://www.musefanpage.com fan page] and online forum, MuseBlog, for readers.
[edit] Meet the Muses:
- Kokopelli: muse of tunes and tricks
- Chad: muse of Hardware
- Aeiou: muse of Software
- Bo: muse of Factoids
- Urania: muse of Astronomy
- Feather: Muse of Plants
- Crraw: muse of Bad Poetry
- Pwt: muse of Animals
- Mimi: muse of getting along with people
